Dell Windows XP Home

[compEngineer0]

I have a Dell machine and something happened and Windows XP Home was corrupted. I tried to run a repair, but that option was not available so I reformatted the hard drive and I'm trying to install a clean copy of XP Home SP2 on the machine using the Product Key on the sticker on the case, but I keep getting invalid product key. I don't have the original Dell XP Cd, so I'm just using a XP Home CD. Any ideas on the problem? Thanks

[GX1_Man]

OEM and Retail procedures can be different. I predict this will not work. Sorry.  

I would contact Dell and see if they can help you but you may be looking at near the cost of an XP purchase for a CD from them.

[compEngineer0]

i got it to work, forgot to label which cd was which, but either the OEM or Retail XP Home Cd worked. thanks.